TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 2

TRADE AFTER THE WAR

DEMAND FOR PROTECTIVE

TARIFF.

LONDON, Feb. 21. i ri he movement in fa vox- of a protec- \ tive tariff here is growing daily. Manufacturers, urged to establish fresh industries to replace German importations, respond with a 'demand ' for an assurance of protection after the war. Earl Cromer, long- a leading Unionist free trader, now endorses the plea for a. general tariff during the war, with a preference to tire Dominions. Chiozza "Money, most powerful and prolific literary defender of fi-ee trade during the Chamberlain controversy, now declares:— "Free trade with the enemy after the war is out of the question!' 3 E. S. Montague, financial secretary of the Treasury, speaking at a Liberal;gathering on Saturday, declared that it was no part of Liberalism not to recogrsiee altered facts and circumstances. He urged, his friends to keep an open mind on the fiscal system, the whole of which will havo to be ro-arranged. Also our relation? with the colonies would have to he considerably altered

The Hon. Thoma.-? Mackenzie, High 'Commissioner for New Zealand, after referring in a speech to the effect oi protective tariffs on the' wages anct welfare of the poor, stated that In.; thought England was going to have some measure of that description.